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white ball

white ball noun: limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket.

Noun

white ball (uncountable)

  1. (metonymically) limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket
    • His team was scheduled to play a white ball match against England.
    • Kohli says that his white-ball batting is essentially an extension of his Test batting.2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, “To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future”, in The Daily Telegraph, London
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, ball.

Proper noun capitalized: White Ball

White Ball

  1. A hamlet in Sampford Arundel parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0918).

Antonyms of white ball

Forms of white ball

Noun
alternative formwhite-ball
Proper noun
alternative formWhiteball

Origin of white ball

Presumably named after White Ball Hill. Whiteball Tunnel, under the boundary with Devon, would have been named after the hill.

Questions about white ball

What does white ball mean?
White ball means limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket.
What part of speech is white ball?
White ball can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near white ball in the dictionary

  1. white asbestos
  2. white ash
  3. white bacon
  4. white bagging
  5. white balance
  6. white ball
  7. white bass
  8. White Beach
  9. white beak-sedge
  10. white beak-sedges
  11. white beaksedge

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